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what do you enjoy doing online?

my recommendation would be to start small, without having to trust yourself with your own data, at least not in the short term.

maybe try your own instance of photon, it’s a frontend for lemmy.

Sorry what integrations?

My small team using mxroute for a few years now.

Its fine. Its cheap. Support is very responsive.

Fastmail is probably the best, but their pricing is egregious.

I was with them for a decade or so but with a large archive of emails and multiple users i couldn’t justify the cost.

I think OP wants somewhere to configure a DNS zone, not just a DNS server to query.

I use cloudflare also but I suspect that OP will find them unfavourable because they’re just another giant. I’d like to de-cloudflare myself.

I use keepassxc and syncthing and have never had this problem.

I think there’s something in the settings to save after each change and reparse if there’s a remote change.

Usually I find these lists a bit “meh”, but there’s actually a bunch of stuff here I want to try.

• Upvote RSS
• Sync-In
• Poznote
• Postgresus
• Loggifly
• OpenArchiver
• BentoPDF

Yeah I use StirlingPDF extensively.

I might give Bento a try but ultimately not much incentive to change.

I’ve had a Synology NAS for 15 years or so, and I think it’s ideal for this kind of use-case.

It has a point and click configuration UI that you access from a web browser.

There’s a reasonably large ecosystem of packages you can install.

I’d have a super-serious talk with them about backing up their stuff.

I basically just avoid exposing ports from containers unless I really do want them exposed on the host?

Most services go through my reverse proxy, traefik.

Things like databases don’t publish ports on the host because they’re only accessed internally, using their container name.

Yeah I’ve been using wireguard for a long time myself personally, and more recently for a small team to access an intranet.

I’m a big fan. After a half hour or so trying to understand configs it’s pretty manageable.

I’ve been trying to get zulip working.

Sounds like it addresses your requirements.

Seems to be a real bitch to self host - I’ve been doing this a while but the compose yaml is pretty arcane with hundreds of environment variables.

I didn’t “give up” exactly but it’s been on the back burner for a month or so now.

I’m honestly kinda surprised that Google is apparently not in fact doing this already and (according to the comments here) continues to not do so.